Chechen Muslim extremists feel a a strong kinship with the US-allied insurgents in Syria. The Boston Marathon bombers are radical Chechen Muslim extremists. In the meantime the Secretary of State John Kerry has announced has just announced it is stepping up funding for US-allied insurgents in Syria.

Under Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, be indefinitely detained by the US government without charge or trial for "substantially support(ing)...associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States."

"[T]he leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled 'distinguished Americans' who are its members is a rollcall of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusiastically support the 'war on terror'.

"They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be 'a cakewalk'; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now president of the US Committee on Nato; Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush's plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines."